The Theology of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians (New Testament Theology)

by James D. G. Dunn

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

, 1993

Overview

Recent research into the character of Judaism in the first century has given scholars a new perspective on Paul. Nowhere is this new perspective more important than in the case of Paul’s letter to the Galatians, a letter that shaped the character of the Christian religion in its early years and that remains a foundation document of Christianity. This study, the first to benefit from the new perspective on Paul, explains more clearly than ever the issues that confronted Paul and the powerful theological arguments he brought to bear in response.

Key Features

• Explains more clearly than ever the issues that confronted Paul and the powerful theological arguments he brought to bear in response
• Explores the new perspective on Paul

Contents

• Editor’s preface
• Preface
• List of abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The make or break issues
• 3. The fundamental agreements
• 4. The heritage of Abraham
• 5. How should the heirs of Abraham live?
• 6. Lesser issues
• 7. The influence of Galatians in Christian thought
• List of further reading
• Indexes

Praise for The Theology of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians

Dunn’s study will furnish both a benchmark and a provocation for future theological studies of Galatians and of each of the Pauline letters individually. Ultimately, perhaps, such a work will provide the necessary basis for a more nuanced interpretation of Pauline theology as a whole.

—Journal of Biblical Literature

Commendably, though written in a fresh and uncomplicated way, Dunn avoids sounding pedagogical. Instead, engaging himself as well as the readers, he leads them into the thicket of Paul’s theological argumentation. Thus, while not breaking new ground, the volume is helpful also as a good introduction for undergraduate and seminary students. This aim and purpose is underscored by useful and up-to-date bibliographical annotations.

—Hans Dieter Betz, Journal of Religion

Product Details

• Title: The Theology of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians
• Author: James D. G. Dunn
• Series: New Testament Theology
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Print Publication Date: 1993
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 161
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. Galatians › Theology
• ISBNs: 9780521351270, 0521351278, 9780521359535, 0521359538
• Resource ID: LLS:NTTHEO69GA
• Resource Type: text.monograph.biblical-theology
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-22T17:39:08Z

About James D. G. Dunn

James D. G. Dunn (1939–) is emeritus Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham and is a leading British New Testament scholar. Dunn is a significant proponent of the New Perspective on Paul, and coined the term in a 1982 lecture. He received a PhD and DD from the University of Cambridge, and a MA and BD from the University of Glasgow. In 2002 he became only the third British scholar to be made the president of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.

His recent works include Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? The New Testament Evidence, A New Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed, the volumes Romans 1–8 and Romans 9–16 of the Word Biblical Commentary, and The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon in The New International Greek Testament Commentary (12 vols.).